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I’ve never viewed a nursery with bark chippings in the garden. Having previously worked in a nursery though I will say it makes sense because some of the injuries on solid concrete slabs were absolutely awful. Also obviously it’s easy enough for us to change our own little ones after a muddy/wet walk but when you have a room of say 20/30 preschoolers and there’s only like 4 of you trying to get everyone sorted it can take a long time and you just don’t want them sat like that for ages. Even with all the best efforts of puddlesuits and welly’s you also end up with so many ruined clothes and parents get very upset (even though you tell them to please send in cheap clothes they don’t listen). I guess bark chippings would slightly eliminate that x
@Constance our chosen nursery didn't have bark chippings when we applied it to it's a new thing they've done. All our local ones seem to have it tho
@Gemma i completely understand that. But surely some wheeled toys will be hard on bark chippings, definitely not friendly for disabled children
There is a mixture in our nursery. The ‘bark garden’ as the kids call it. A tarmac area, grass area and forest school area. To be fair very few incidents happen in the bark garden it’s almost always on the tarmac/brick area
Off topic but My daughter gets it in her hair! I didn’t know what it was I thought she had huge Headlice made my skin crawl 😂😂😂😂 I almost cried. It a pain and hard to get out of black girls hair. I wasn’t happy and had a few words- never seen it in her hair since, it’s awful they say the kids throw it everywhere 🙄 well stop them then! It’s dangerous
@Tisha I can imagine it the hair being a right inconvenience. It's hard enough to get things out of fine hair sometimes. It being thrown about onto hair and get into their welly boots was my thoughts too could really hurt
@Tisha omg this is so frustrating , my mixed race son is constantly getting sand in his hair from other kids throwing it at each other in the sand pit. It’s impossible to comb out as he has really tight curls , have had to speak to them about it on numerous occasions and all they suggested was he wears a hat outside 🫠
I looked at quite a few nurseries before choosing the one my son goes to and haven’t ever seen bark chippings at any! There definitely are some without !!